Archive - Arts & Culture

BY PABLO A. TARIMAN WEDNESDAY night at the Newport Performing Arts Theater at Resort World, Manila’s music lovers heard the pop opera quartet, Il Divo, for the second time around and loving every minute of it. The group was apparently conceptualized to appeal to all races and thus the different nationalities of the members of

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN “DYESEBEL” the new teleserye of ABS CBN is off to a good start with a strong message to  save the sea and get rid of dynamite fishers. The unlikely love affair between a mermaid and a merman  finds distinct possibility in the roles portrayed by Dawn Zulueta as the fisherman’s

  THE most watched teleserye that ended last week was “Honesto” which is about a young boy whose nose gets swollen every time he tells a lie. “Honesto,” played by child actor Raikko Mateo, is capable of looking at people’s past by just holding the hands of anyone who has problems squaring off with his

   By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON Today, March 13, is World Kidney Day. Dr. Susan Anonuevo-dela Rama of the Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN)  asks everyone to do  a favor for your kidney and for all the kidneys in the world: raise a glass of water, take a selfie, and post it on the any social

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN IF the first five episodes of “Ikaw Lamang” are of any indication, it is the fact that the network has produced a teleserye with the looks and inherent appeal of a well-made film. It is billed as period drama and romance set in the haciendas in the south and indeed

 By PABLO A. TARIMAN THOSE romantic moments may look easy and spontaneous on the TV and movie screen but there is more to doing love scenes than meets the eye. “The truth is it is doubly tough for the actor once you face the cameras. The work starts before the shoot. First, you need good

  By NORMAN SISON AT the corner of a gallery at the Lopez Museum hangs a painting measuring 18 inches wide and 24 inches high. It is over a century old, but the political issue depicted remains just as relevant today with the threat to freedom of expression embodied in the Cybercrime Prevention law. Commissioned

  BY PABLO A. TARIMAN BOOK authors in the popular category are now having the good times of their lives with movie executives jumping on the first opportunity to get film rights of bestselling books. Bob Ong’s “Aba, Nakakabasa Na Pala Ako” landed in the stable of Viva Films which made a well-received movie version

  By NORMAN SISON PALAWAN will soon be home to the Philippines’ largest micro-grid solar power plant, generating 1.3 megawatts of clean renewable energy. Costing P325 million, the plant will have 5,000 solar panels that will provide power to over 600 customers — homes, businesses and hotels — in Puerto Princesa City’s Sabang district. It

Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA A sabbatical from his work as a professor at the University of the Philippines Baguio has enabled Delfin Tolentino Jr. to see that the poetic muse had fled although this may be temporary. The passion for books, however, remains like the constant wife it is to bibliophiles like him.

    BY PABLO A. TARIMAN THE lady — who won the Best Screenplay trophy for Mike de Leon’s “Batch ’81,” Best Production Design for Ishmael Bernal’s “Himala” and Best Actress for Jeffrey Jeturian’s “ Bisperas” — is looking for words to describe her more than 30 years in show business. “It’s masalimuot (complicated) but

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN  THE thing with movies made for TV audiences is that you don’t expect much. You are offered star values, you are expected to be tickled pink by romantic trailers and you hope you catch it in your free time. But when you are 60 and above, romantic flings are not

By PABLO A. TARIMAN  AT 6”4’  and every inch looking like a matinee idol, Andre Paras towers over the rest of his contemporaries namely model-actress Sam Pinto, television find  Yassi Pressman and  singer Gino Padilla’s son, Josh Padilla. The four youngsters are the newly recruited video jockeys (VJs) of MTV Pinoy, which was launched last

By ARTHA KIRA PAREDES THE story of Violeta and Gerardo proves two things: It’s never too late to fall in love again and love hurdles immigration barriers.

  By JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY GIOLAGON ENGINEER  Emer Rojas is often described as a walking graphic health warning against smoking. Having lost his natural voice, he speaks only through an electrolarynx. In speaking tours he uses his robotic voice to illustrate the very real dangers of tobacco consumption. Unfortunately, many still choose to ignore his message.

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN Photos from the Facebook of ARTHUR ESPIRITU AT 5 degrees Celsius, Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu sang the role of the love-sick Ernesto in a well-received production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Oper Leipzig, the third oldest opera house in Germany. Espiritu, the first Filipino tenor to sing at La

BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS VIOLINIST Joaquin Maria “Chino” Gutierrez’s performance Saturday night at the Insular Theatre at the Filinvest Corporate City in Alabang was mesmerizing, just the right antidote to  all the toxic reports that  currently dominate the media. Gutierrez “Revelry” concert was a repeat of the successful concert he had last year at the Francisco

  By PABLO A. TARIMAN AFTER eleven feature films most of them blockbusters, film director Olivia Lamasan admits her film education started from the time her mother (a Nora Aunor fan) would drag her siblings to the movie theaters to watch her favorite movie star. “I have no schooling in film theories, no exposure in